/ 07 March 2023

A new look for Toblerone, koala climbs up the wrong tree, and Alaska’s annual sled dog race…

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Toblerone packaging is going to look a little different in future – Switzerland’s strict rules about protecting “Swissness” means the Matterhorn mountain graphic has to be dropped when production of the sweet moves to Slovakia this year. Here’s hoping the taste stays the same…

A retail worker got some koala-ty time with one of Oz’s favourite marsupials when it strolled into a petrol station in the Adelaide Hills and climbed up his leg – which it presumably mistook for a tree. And luckily for us, it was all captured on CCTV

More than 30 sled dog drivers – or mushers, as they’re affectionately known – have set off on the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the Alaskan wilderness. It’s 1,600km they have to cover, it’s not for the faint-hearted – or soft pawed… 

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